What order. Was saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
Literally just to let the United States of America and the Republic of the Seas
Why do you all right now are you new to the world with every girl.
Oh dear oh dear Dan Patton you can Lundberg here Janice
Ashleigh here. Here Robert Pyle your first car here.
The first item on the agenda see approval minutes from the January twelfth meeting
. So as to twenty five should be no one. Has to say
around the motion to proceed on an. On paper very.
Far. Thanks Mr Carr question a calculation
a vendor here report building and zoning department I think I should be Mr
Fitzsimmons. Pollak what.
I would like from our own people with this oh I wouldn't trade.
Any further discussion. What has changed is their motion to the planets
so to. All those in favor. Those opposed. To giving
motion carries. The second part of the agenda is open to the public. Office on the
I'm sorry there's no names on just one life to make that.
Next item on the agenda supporters and resolutions we have Resolution six to
sixteen. OK So let me give you some background on what this is
very quickly it's
a bear with me and I'm reading this from Mark on it actually about I'm not
a financial acquired the Bible there are. Some of the reasons for security benefit
which is the the company that we hold the holder for for the seven. Sponsors the
legal plan document governing for what is the section of this rather approximately
every seven years the federal government requires that the plans documents be
amended and restated to incorporate any and all changes to the pension while the
current plan document needs to be amended and restated to bring it into compliance
with the pension watching just from the part Pension Protection Act of two thousand
and six the deadline is April appoint sixteen the changes will not affect the fork
with the seven planned provisions in the immaterial way although he will remind you
that there are no current contributions as the full weight withdrawals from
employee paychecks but the birth still needs to adopt the restated document to be
in compliance Security benefit is not charging any fees or expense for the state.
So this is just paperwork from phone paperwork really change me.
My surely only records thing incorporating the change in the I.R.S.
Code regarding tax provision to the for pity's of the changing beneficiary no
changes how payments are made is just just before the current.
Is there
a motion to withdraw from social six twenty sixteen. This is their second second
any further discussion. All those in favor. Of those opposed
OK And the notion carries. The next item on the agenda is the merest
reform. Because one. Please report around town the coming of this
next life we. Have the chief is here so what you have in
your package if you have any questions we can ask on the cheap in the next meeting
he's in Mexico missing this weather next life please.
So we got about twenty minutes. For the service to have this month last year
next slide please. This is also in your package you see
the fire E.M.'s to call what they're feeling. Seventeen you know sixteen
sixteen call police.
Next line please. This is also in your packet This is the
D.M.'s report seventy seven service calls. And counting their.
Their fire department calls seventeen.
Next life.
It's
a very. Rare yes sir. Like the police incident report
yet on the fifteenth of January there were six. All
were of were those have to scream that word here is more than likely was to live
with you know because usually they come in bunches like that I do not know but I
will pass that on to the chief we're going to get yours for sure the. Cheap good
but chances are good this was one of
a pile up for the fourth came the general and they were at it in the system that
would be my guess it made all heard on the exact same day necessarily. Dr all.
Right you want. To kill so. That's why
I can i thought here we have somebody come in cut off
a bunch of lead OK we're just far off. Base
likely probably listed twenty sixteen year old January to twenty six to twenty four
there was nothing specific is Flora's what Carole Valley got so what I did they did
an average Getty's for cash town around so that's where I came up with an average
of. Really depended upon where you were in the area that you got and I had about
sixteen or seventeen inches so it just depends on where you were
a. Person. Next slide please.
Region are bringing this light up that there's this about snow emergency. If you go
to the website and shows you. The policy that's being followed by the
borrow some going to click where it says click here next slide please. So
bring it out from the system through and the most important message from that is
that the first priority is the emergency routes within the carol Valley you know I
received
a number of calls and I believe they might have gotten caught one or two calls
also and it's fine that you call the Find out the information of when your
trail is going to be cleared but you should recognize said the first thing that
they do the first priority is to emergency so the question comes up What happens if
I have an emergency an emergency is not clearing that your driveway of the Tory out
to your driveway the emergency room. Would be for example there's others but for
example a heart attack if you called nine one one and said that you were having
a heart attack then. They'll contact the Fairfield far any I'm asked
and then they'll start to deploy the police department is the ploy and guess what
based on the new radios that we have we have very good communication with the
plowing crew and then if you were not on the emergency route there would go to the
your particular trail and start clearing it so emergency personnel can reach you so
I just wanted to mention at night also this
a number of people might not know what the non-emergency number it is is it is
three three four eighty one zero one it goes to the same location but
a different procedure is used with that as compared to when I'm one one call the
next live please this is just to show you the outside is what the state takes care
of and then where the blue is that's the emergency route so if you live on the
emergency route that's where you see the truck if you live on one of the trails
that connected emergency route one of the things you might wonder about is the
truck he's passing by but they don't clear my trail and the reason why they're
trying to make sure that the emergency routes are are that we're. A star
Yeah. And then there's
a little thing on the left you could see collector of secondary streets and then
you see the emergency room. So I'm not preventing you from calling OK I
understand your concern. But I'm just trying to explain what the procedures Next
slide please. And I just want to offer my thanks for the service that our crew did
. As compared and I'm not going to name any minister Pallies but as compared to
other minister polities. I have. I have
a little note here that says Good afternoon Mayor Harris I am not sure when I see
you the next time but I wanted to take
a moment to let you know how much we appreciated the effort the guys from the
borough office made this past weekend with the plowing and road Cleary It was
amazing how quickly they cleared the trails I would especially like to dance groups
patcher. For his help on the return home from an ambulance shift Saturday
morning I got stuck at the bottom
a mile career he saw me walking home alerted members of the crew that my vehicle
had become stuck and needed to be moved while my wife and I was shuddering it out
one of the guys I don't know the operators name came by plywood
a path which allowed us to pull out and get the call home no further problems or
road blocking Thanks again Mr Morton So I thanked him I think
most of the people thank him and hopefully. We don't have too much more snow.
Thank you next like please I just want to yes that is I'm sorry the projector is
not doing the photograph justice I soon you took it yesterday and that is it Mike
or yeah that passed
a picture put it on the website so we're going to everybody can enjoy one give it
to you without the service there. Were about citizen De Mint pizza and beer
to prove to reward those folks I couldn't speak to the former but not the louder
and I was if you want to connect with me which were
a way for that got to be extremely generous it was
a master. Mix like please.
I don't know if you're familiar with this it's been in the existence since two
thousand and six it's called fair to the emergency management agency for the month
next slide please. And you'll hear more about it at the next meeting in our talk
a little bit more about it looking for volunteers but I just wanted to bring
attention this is the beginning of the year and this is the elected official
training if you look at the bottom bullet Well I'm talking about the top hole at
the top of that says that there are two trainings that elected officials. Should
take and I know one of the bottom bottom Boletus says require I say sure because we
should because that's up to the an individual like that official but it's most
important if we're going to say there's some damage and we're going in from money
from the federal government and not that the federal government is like an
insurance company and they try not to pay you but they will look that you are
following all the procedures that they have set forth so if you are not taking
them seven hundred or I see yes one hundred which deals with the incident command
system we need to do it and you can do it online if you do not like to do things
online we can set up a time that we look and say hold
a small class and go over it and you want to. Go here's.
Somebody all of our orders those courses but the National Institute
system saccharin it's
a whole national system starts first. Yeah everybody does but the roasted.
On the scope of disaster. If you.
Don't call. The financial. Source
you know every public official instead of the system it goes. So let's
first. Do no this is do. You see
years forty one is on all of us so. Far.
So the citizenship.
You know I took the course of several years ago and basically it shows you what the
structure is particularly in the area here when when an emergency happens where
your place as part of the proconsul and part of the emergency system is and what
role you're going to have to play if we have an emergency so it's worthwhile taking
the courses they're not that hard to do on the Internet and you take it you take
your test at the end and get your grade out of it and it's it's it's fairly
straightforward but it's fairly enlightening to look at it because there is
a structure there that particularly that goes in place here which includes the
police department the fire department the public officials here from Burma and down
Borough Council and it's it's it's vitally important in an emergency that you
understand what's happening there so I would I would really urge you to take the
time to take those two courses they're not that complicated or not that long and
but it's extremely informative. Next slide please. Just
just one thing and the council members who have not completed that we would talk
with Gayle after we're gone from you tonight to get that arranged for you thank you
. And. It's what I'm
doing. I go to all of these meetings and I pick out things and I thought I would
report some of the things that I thought would be of interest to you this is based
on the January twenty eighth meeting now the Council of Governments if you haven't
heard that before it's called the minister pal of these meeting together on
a Thursday morning over at the nine one one center and they talk about different
issues and they have
a speaker. Representative Coleman was there he gave an update on the state budget
and I thought I just passed some of the information that I picked out when he was
talking they're working on the budget as a line by line item of
a he said that they were eighty seven percent completed.
And they're introducing a bill which they hope to pass that makes
a line item for agriculture that's important for the Adams County and it's going to
have an amount in that line item of two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So if you
wanted more information about that you wish to go to a P.S.A.
And. What is
a D C D and then look up that bill number and it will give you all the information
Next slide please. The Adams County conservation office announcement and this is
dirt gravel in the low volume I don't know if we have Dave we have any roads.
Well
a couple hundred feet of them so this might not apply but they're having that on
the thirteenth and fourteenth and if you do have this kind of road you can go in
and try to get a not try to apply for
a grant. And they have about two hundred twenty one thousand dollars in the quote
in the bank to draw from next life please. The Adams
County you know we discussed this before I think it was at the December meeting I'm
not sure I think it was the December meeting and that's the Adams County recycling
at that rescue A R M. A R N said the
estimated cost to do the recycling put twenty sixteen would be roughly twenty four
thousand dollars Adams County said that they would match
twelve thousand dollars of that so they're going to budget twelve thousand dollars
and they're looking to see if the minister penalties and Adams County would make
donations to come up with the other twelve thousand dollars and as of January the
twenty eight. They have eleven thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
Long term solution is the state the state needs to come up with the legislation to
be able to take care of this electronic recycling problem so if
a company is going to sell electronic material this should be in the contract
that they're putting money in there to do the recycling. So I don't know if the
Board would like to make a donation or not make
a donation but they need additional funds Next slide please.
I had the pleasure to accompany Tyler and Sarah Bruce. To listen to
our borough manager who I think did
a fantastic sharpie gave the class. And talked about
what
a council person the mayor needs to know to perform their duties and they thank you
I think it was a very good to have a Dave has
a way of getting everybody's attention he uses the phrase I shouldn't say that and
then he says it and everybody listens it's better. It's called I think it's
called
a tease because then you get everybody's attention but good technique in Appreciate
your education educating me next slide please upcoming against Next slide please
so horribly as
a member of American Horror one Next slide please Normally when we think about
heart attacks we think about men. But if you look at some of the statistics here.
More than six million women have
a heart disease it is the number one killer of women.
I guess everybody else knew that I did and that impressed me but it's
a sad fact but it impressed me. Responsible for one in three this in women annually
so I just wanted to bring it to everybody's attention next slide please. Now in my
other life some of this has to deal my other life when I joined the service I was
a dietitian OK. So the first thing that I put up there
is this is for the women but you know there's a husband around
a boyfriend around your friend around you know people need to be encouraged to eat
well if you leave it up to someone you know they get into
a habit they don't even know they're doing it so need to eat
a healthy diet and you can check what a healthy diet is what your doctor would
a dietician what someone else monitor your cholesterol level try to maintain as
best as costs a goal
a healthy weight. Don't smoke and that saw
hard to to overcome. I smoked until I think it was.
Eighty four until the surgeon general when I was in the Air Force put me into his
hospital room and put me in I.C.U.
Right next to a bed. Had
a person had. On cancer because of smoking he had throughout the entire
night I left the hospital never had
a cigarette after that. So yours might not be as dramatic as time but it took that
took that long for me to realize that maybe I should try his best responsible not
to take that cigarette. Limit your alcohol or reduce your stress that I really
don't do well so don't talk to my wife off or you know the stress part.
The stress part. And then naturally visit your physician and maybe he would be able
to help you how to direct in the right place for developing
a heart plan health plan Well I think I did it right hard put next line.
Ladies Happy Valentine's please take curious L.
Next line. And the second manual their daddy
daughter principle of bed I don't know if you would like to say
a few words next life how many do we have over
a hundred right coming we actually have over two hundred coming we have almost
a hundred daddy daughters signed up there's still time you. Get
your registration and this week it's the Saturday night we're looking forward to.
It it's a fantastic event they did it last year I responded to took
a couple of pictures but fantastic event because the fathers I don't know they just
get
a bit carried away especially the dancing and the daughters just looking up at their
dad Stan Singh and they all how Look at that he's paying attention to me I didn't
know he could dance and you can see the look on their face they like surprise so
everybody has
a fantastic time so please you might want to take the door to the next slide please
. All of the Adams County commissioners are going to have an open
house on February seventeenth. If you don't realize what's happening they move the
planning office from downtown Gettysburg to the agricultural and natural resources
the building which is right across the street from the Harrisburg community college
. The Open House is going to be from five thirty to six thirty and then they're
going to have hold their form. Which will be scheduled at the lower level so they
go from six thirty to seven thirty and I think they're going to provide food at
least I'm saying it I don't take it in. The next slide please.
Meetings that day at the dance I boarded thirteen parks and right next plane
commission on Monday the seven and it is here and he's going to give us
a briefing and the challenge of going to the ordinances and then public safety and
Borough Council next slide please. Next slide please.
Next slide please.
Next slide please. Thanks for listening.
Plain English I think the calf's here. Like.
You're. Going to work for me to be.
Sure the last two were true you are lucky you are.
Large and very. Secure that conditions across sections of your. House
you should really care. For
just
a clarification or tax actually. I appreciate
having Council in other parts of. The. World.
I meet with you if you are just
a client. But an action oriented one as well I reported periodic week over the
years of action or action ideas for someone who. Couldn't bring the birth marks
a true master plan to ration. The mission to kill
a commission Lorri Davis in the bin Laden ground work for quite
a while but there's
a strong feeling funding this is the work. He represented and yes funded
solutions sure all the lawyers. On the building have
to consult to aid in the application for the part of the party constitution to
resources grant project. Warrior Parks and Recreation chairman to Scotia they
sort of will be meeting with him and
a representative from the state office on Monday or so. But I think tensions
certainly could be significant and since. The points on the other things
are worse than additional recommendations for you or. What sort
of call Open Office I hope for the. Invite well soon become the steak or the
programmers the nation after. Consulting with goodies for recreation
license by. Three groups to secure more room in the store room and some funding
opportunities invited to join us in this stakeholder. System
and we have confirmed
a resident question my whole issue here your son has strong
lobby the sidewalks of the city walking on. A section one
nor should I mess. You know. And then to console stuff most amusing
yourself with that and you didn't answer mine for vision who are. You proud of or
why your Parks and Recreation were to go around the world last week I was
approached by your own admission last summer why you should be serving on the
island you know. You just said I would accept the offers of. The west
move those who shares. My apartment to.
Talk to who works you know I hope to just brings up
a better commission she moves. On. Goes on.
Microcosm. You know plenty of you who are really notable The moment you
first. Check.
Is there any report from the parks recreation and I think. It's
kind of here on most of their stuff that their last year OK.
Next item on the agenda is the ministry of business update on the phone. The
treasurer's report. The former is
a treasure for four January two thousand and six for the request for the letter
regarding why. A lot of their. I should
know later cation your comment for probably blood to me every one of their.
There are standards thinking five. The thinking behind it is
a requirement for bank account for. The long payments only one state of
Pennsylvania requires that the money be put into what they call the sinking fund
and then anyone's better. By the firm must be paid from that. So that you'll notice
that there is very little money kept in there we do basically it's one month's
payment plus. The one that would be paid for so there's not
a whole lot in there and that two thousand dollars is the monthly payment OK I
see that will return for land purchases that is see what we consider the commie
profits they want to see. That Zorra will six such that are that you
join that far away in there with that they purchase it's no seven years ago to
reverse it in their circle I feel like I'm here for my commitment or up to the
hundred eight payments so that one hundred percent OK. I'm going to write
a check from one. To the other and then from not one to another well it's actually
on the withdrawal so there isn't so we don't have to purchase quite as many checks
but you're exactly right money is transferred into their region so then they P L G
I T general fund that is
a bank. The state of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania for the Government Investment Trust
thing OK. So that's one of our investment and excuse me the purchase that was made
out of areas the truck that was I think last year any of those large purchases
we take out of back to Columbus now. Thank you beautiful.
I mean for the Russian. Guy who was supposed to. Get
forty of all I have I put
a couple things up I just get the news just want to say actually one thing I I
neglected to get onto the agenda but I think I want to take
a minute I know that the mayor was kind enough to mention to the blizzard of
January twenty second through oh well we still have this in our home and going yeah
I just want to start by saying. That was the first snow we had under our municipal
services the superintendent. He did an amazing job just an amazing job he
is so dedicated to working for the people care about. And we
I know I personally couldn't be proud more proud than I am of the guys I talked to
him the day before the storm started I said you're stirring. Up get me out and I'll
come down and do whatever I can to help he said you know what I'm comfortable here
twenty seven years just fine and he can. I WANT TO ME stay aware of that and I did
effort to have him. On and he did it almost with that yeah and he did
a job with his crew in raising here are some of the things that you don't
necessarily see is you know we have three large trucks three small trucks first day
to the store we lost all of our big trucks because of the amount of sort of pushing
and by that time the small trucks were only able to open the roof we needed to use
the large trucks to get back to the and clean things up of the small trucks so we
were very quickly down to about thirty three percent of our food and that's the one
thing we still perform the way we perform and it is
a testament to not only sound planning because they have backup plans in place on
how to handle it but it's also
a testament to the guys and their willingness to jump from one piece of equipment
to another just to get the job done whatever took So a lot of time
a backer who would normally sit and that's not the most comfortable of hours not
that any of them work off the ball Mind you I just want to say at least one more
time one of the nation job they did. I'm proud to say.
Our roads look good for. Around here and and I
said with pride and you know we we have an amazing group of men who.
Unfortunately don't get to hear the pats on the back very often. But I made
sure you're aware of one thing for example on there are so many positive comments
on our Facebook page about the work they did that I want to make sure I don't have
any of them are official so I took the time that you find it worthwhile to print
out every single one of those comments and take it down to the shop and stick it on
the wall so that they could stand there and you know we. We are really lucky
to have them and just because we've been through so many stones of intrusion or
storms here for. The fact that there were any words of the twenty four hours is
amazing the fact that in less than forty eight all of our route for all is just
an amazing job by those guys. So I want to say that another thing regarding the
blizzard this is more business oriented. The. Counties there
today yes. They're working through the process now of trying to apply
for funding for an emergency with Zach Steria believe with the
right terminology so we by we and Gary and Sterling have worked
for the last week or so because we have put together
a lot of information but we're we're hopeful we'll fingers crossed that that. Is
something that will come through and it is it will help to reimburse us for costs
for man hours. For Quitman hours for materials. We anticipate
the the application from us just our portions would be well over ten thousand
dollars so it was this pretty significant storm although the temperatures were kind
to us during that storm as well and we didn't there wasn't much sense and throw
a lot of material because it would have just been thrown away so I wanted
a wall that you know specifically how much we have filed for and and also.
If we find out the results of that we've done this one of the time in the funding
did come through so. They would cross because that truck that I mentioned. It's
very expensive to fix it so it's going to take up
a good chunk of that money to put the wheel back on so and it was to get by the way
with one of our view trucks so they work and the equipment was working just as hard
so I don't want to keep going on although I probably could talk for another twenty
minutes about this just I'm sorry I do want to say one more thing quick story
because these are the kinds of things you don't hear about very often we heard
someone was nice enough to put
a letter in about something that one of our police did outside of their job
description but still something we would hope they would all do and there was
another story where there was
a very. Very thoughtful citizen who found
an elderly gentleman face down in
a snowbank it just so happens that upon his finding him we had
a snowplow going by and it also just so happened I swear all these things just go
together and it was one of our part time guys who's a four time fire and me
a mask guy and I'm pleased to say that that gentleman was doing perfectly fine. But
they stopped they helped him so if somebody is rude took an extra fifteen or twenty
minutes that so be it because I feel strongly that the room between the resident in
the gentleman who was in our lot of trouble we want to save someone's life that.
Hooter's to all the guys. Up there. And. So
that's the only issue. Is identity being he really would.
Just I needed he was local with the music file as well as foolish or and they would
like to make. An application or request to the scam
plan office to do
a road safety OD it on the one sixteenth court order it would be. Basically
people who are smarter than me would come in and look at all the aspects of one
sixteen whether it be pedestrian issues at the school or already or sections that
are issues and make recommendations on how to improve those things there is no
anticipated costs associated with this there is funding through the Adams
County chance for Taishan planning organization for which I'm now
a member of so we get one vote anyway but
they they are hoping that and this doesn't need to be in them in
a formal motion or anything but they don't want anybody to come to the table
without their elected bodies no one of the idea of doing it so we put together
a more concrete plan based on Sanders is they'd like your support going forward on
that so that Hunt was just. Crossed off the
the parameters of the audit had yet to be fully discussed. I anticipate at
least I know I plan on asking that it be expanded just
a little bit I don't know if they'll do it or not but I'd like to see at least
a portion of sixteen included in that as well but I didn't I didn't discuss that at
the one meeting I went to yet but so the predators have yet to be discussed but I
think it's probably open to getting all areas of concern.
So I would just need everybody's getting most nods of anybodies enough port of
about not to the time. Well as the meetings Well I would imagine the
last one we had actually occurred during the Hamilton van township supervisors
meeting and they asked us to attend so I went to their meeting it was their first
first item on their agenda so I assume that it would be that type of thing
obviously anybody with interest on the council kind of
a sermon might have something that will make sure that you're on the list of
invited attendees is. More than welcome to get everyone involved I think it's
a really good idea it doesn't seem like a cough
a whole lot of money and then once it's in place it becomes
a good mechanism to help get these things improved. And then one last thing.
I swear we've been working on this forever but I want to show it to you and as you
can see
a website now you can use an explanation of. Real please with this so
I'd like to show it to quickly. There is our new tour of Alberta web site I
don't want to go through it in great detail as to what's different what's not
different. One of the things and I'm not going to read the paragraph that I wrote
down below but the goal was that it was it was simple it was we didn't want
a whole lot of pearls and thrills one of the things we wanted was the became even
easier for staff to update and the other thing is because of our utilization
of Facebook quite frankly Facebook's just easier to update that anything else one
of the things that we've included on the home page is
a feed which can be read by anybody whether you have
a Facebook account or not. And you can see whatever we post there will be
automatically now posted to the website as well which takes and cuts our time in
half when we're trying to update and get the information out real pleased with the
way the site has turned out. Not all of the functionality is
in there yet we have plans that we're hopeful that we'll have
a reservations calendar for the park reservations so that people can see when
things are available when they're not available we want to become more functional
for the users the people of the borough perhaps it's filling out and paying for
building permits or whatever might be but this is the skeletal framework of that
and real pleased with it and I really think going forward will be able to
accomplish getting out all the information that would like to to put out there and
I don't want to not thank him. For his hard work on this he's been working with us
with our website for years and years as you
know while he helped us with the last Web site so I don't know it's been
a long time so I thank him for his his diligence efforts and I know that so much of
what he does for us is more pro bono of them than paid for and that's. Again shown
his dedication to the community he's our chairman of our parks and rec committee
and of course Sarah's worse half so. Real pleased with it if anybody has any
questions about the website I encourage you to go out take
a look at it you might find
a link or two that is it isn't doesn't have the information filled in yet working
very hard on getting the information put in there. Overall I'm just I'm really
thrilled I hope you all find that it's and I will be another ass at the rear so
what's the website.
They are. Too.
Far.
For the cats and those are just the ones that I know about
a. Larger. Here take
them for the love rescue and the hard. Truth. For.
Those forty eight he works for one hundred dollars the rest are paid for you
here see you're doing
a fundraiser for your senior project prior to the nation and we've got some other
buddy system for you to let continue this is the counties that.
Are set. To get this. Case section.
Most of the other ones from the shell euro area and that's one of the other
counties finished. This week and we are planning. To share the trip on the
coast by virtue of the other power in the entire meters and then after we finish
working on the trip another colleague that I mention above is
a Grammy we're going to fight for in January unfortunately there has not been.
Found
a contact close to the source of this is there some political issues going on they
don't know when that Grant will open so the council can hear you know their five
hundred dollars to help continue you know program that these kids chapters could
use possible and have kids. Who are in this group.
To do them one more thing. This is
a motion to. The two of them were coming over to your program.
Tonight is our second in the discussion. As opposed.
To the entire. Work on. The things we did but
for them to. Be done. When we're going to see again we are not.
In that area. You know. If we just turn around the neighborhood right.
Around shelter or tree or try. Anything.
To. One other item bunk British business OK You know we had arguments in the
different building project before we were talking about that I have from the
email from Amy who censor regards and apparently she was unable to get here due to
the weather but she asked me to say
a few things by few things I mean get comfortable. Already just quickly as I can
without stumbling too much. Governor will still has not begun to release has not
begun release rack P.
Awards in any legislative district Republican or Democrat today he delivered what
was to be his twenty sixteen seventeen budget address instead he addressed the
legislature regarding the unfinished one fifteen sixteen budget he explained that
he was still willing to accept the last proposal that was supported by all caucuses
but ultimately voted down by the House Republicans. There was much talk of the need
for new sustainable revenue but an actual source aka taxes was not offered in the
speech nor by Democratic leaders after the address Republican leadership appears to
be holding strong that they. Will she let the word out they will any proposed new
revenue No I'm not going to assume what she said I get burnt by that the revenue
will be will not be entertained without reasonable forms to spending aka pension
welfare programs. So what does this mean for Iraqi again the Raqi program is not
dependent on the budget as its funding source comes from general obligation bonds
legislatively authorized long ago but Iraqi awards are very much tied to budget
negotiations so once negotiations ramp up again we should see awards begin to be
announced I have I having been in close contact with the senator and his
staff to make sure the care of Allie's rack the remains and play we've spoken as
recently as today in the meantime we have begun working with your planning team as
you heard Ed mention to develop a D.C. An R C two P.
To grant I don't remember what C two P two stands for I know it's community
conservation partnership program the areas that ought grant application for some of
the boroughs trail initiative we have
a meeting coming up as it already mentioned. With their readers with our regional
D.C.
In our contact who have worked with several times in the past the purpose of that
meeting is to introduce our trail project his apartment and think of
a our intent to
a block maximum fun funding request for that project one hundred fifty thousand
dollars which we have achieved in the past for other clients that's the end of her
update I will tag on the back end of that to mention. Them working on that grant
application is not costing us anything that's part of our retainer or they're
already working for us so there's no this will cost of the work that they're doing
. So that is her any questions about the
Amy's update on the rack to grant process. And if
you will I hate talking so much but opting to new to to the to make
reference to built is
a building project since the last months meeting there have not been any additional
meetings of any kind conversations with myself and the architect about where we're
going and I think that it's imperative that we move this project off
of just thought that it's sitting on and so because of that and in the interest of
time and employee health as both of us sit here snuffling I
think it's important that that we find
a way to to get this project moving so I'm going to propose something and you can
tell me to be quiet it is going ton or that I'm crazy but my wife usually will tell
me that and that is I recommend that the council consider scheduling
a special meeting and picking up
a project from where it was good and that it be the only item on the agenda at that
meeting and that we sit here for as long as we need to until all seven council
members are comfortable with the project and the details of the project so the
reader can put together
a good plan moving forward it's my opinion that the the staff
and other people involved have done about as much as we can do on this project at
this stage and it's going to and my opinion is in the hands of those of you who are
sitting at that table and I think it would behoove us now to to
have that special meeting and. Recommend you do it sooner rather than later.
But. The last meeting in the cage and the architect. Had some
recommendations or suggestions that he was considering in terms of looking at
options to reduce the cost us or. Number one have we received that
information and number two at this meeting that you're posing at the Council to
come to grips with this Will the architect or his representatives to be there for
some technical guidance that we would yes I should have been
a little more clear on how I would perceive that meeting go on. If you were or to
move forward with such
a meeting I would see it as we pick up from we think the project up from where it
was put out to bid last time the architect has already done the legwork of
preparing recommendations on things that may be can be changed based upon the
preference of the spirit. So what he would be prepared to do is come in and do
a presentation what part of it would just be
a refresher reminder of here's what the project was that we bit and then he would
be prepared to go through
a list of recommendations on things that perhaps we should or should consider could
consider. To perhaps bring we project costs
a little bit more in line with our comfort level of this. And then he also will be
prepared to be able to offer to you valuations to those changes as well so we
should be able to take the project from where it was and get it to where we can get
it back out to bid and move forward with the project and I anticipate that
happening in the same meeting I really do believe that that's possible last
question will this meeting be open to the public eye my recommendation is that it's
a special meeting at ground zero. It would be it would be just like this it just
wouldn't occur to us there on
a regular meeting date because I anticipate the length of it being such that it
would be difficult to fit into the schedule that I and I anticipate it that way or
at dissipate that answers but. Recognizing the discussions we've had the past fall
into. The public being where
a particular meeting for the building this is right we need to bring this to
closure. I'm hopeful that we can not only move the project forward but
also we would be able to. Not only have the public involved but
offer to some extent
a little bit level of comfort to the public of what the knowledge levels are so
they could be at the same time as you are become completely aware of every facet of
the project and that So that's that's my crazy idea and I can assure you Enron will
attest that over the ten plus years he and I have been in this office together I
have countless times said no we don't need
a special meeting for that because I can't see him doing that because it's painful
it really can be painful. This project is the biggest project this borough has for
potentially ever had and that and it needs that kind of attention and I think that
you have to It needs the attention of the seven of you plus the mayor not the
attention of mean the chief and Gail and they figure I think it's we've done what
we can do with the project and now it's really it needs to be in your hands and
that's where I'd like to put I fully support your recommendation can we do it next
week or so to say. We're we need to have twenty four hours notice
our jailers rule of thumb as it needs to be three days so that she has
a day to get at the paper in the paper has a day or process and
a day for the hip paper. And then so that you're prepared when there's
a as long as we have three days which we will have three days regardless of where
looking at next week and I I think next I know that our architect is already ready
to go to contact me again today and said please let me know tomorrow the council
feels about what you what you're going to present he's ready to go already so it
was time in that meeting be seven or would it be sometime during the day. I just
assumed that it would be seven but it's if it will pass
a what they would like to do they could wind up here. We're.
Having the meeting. To be able to handle what it was I missed or seven o'clock
Pacific time so I would assume that you know right. To the point you're you do we
need to formally through the paper I'm sure you're going to be pretty you know on
the website are you going to put it on Facebook social media same time. Right. Yes
that is the intention our intention is to get people to come out and if they're
concerned or not concerned perhaps it would be nice to hear from the people that I
hear from repeatedly who support the project and I think many of us hear from
supporters it's hard to get supporters in the audience that I miss people who have
an axe to grind I just know from from I get around town
a good bit you know. Who the supporters of well outnumber the negative comments and
I think that it's important that we get as many minds in here so that we can get
their feedback and everybody can be as educated as possible my intention hopefully
Ron as well I don't know what the schedule will be like with a C.T.V.
Would be nice if we could have that also televised and put up the remarks straight
about turning the videos back over to quickly so that's probably something that we
could do. Was to find out how their schedule works but no I do I think that it's
important that the public be well notified and we'll do everything we can never go
. Into the meeting trying to settle this fulfillment project Feb
sixteenth so here I have
a place where I'm standing here I have that pleasure to make that motion. So.
I have it's our second second to make any kind. From the discussion was there
a date in that Lucian's gives a sixteen week from today that those are here with
a thing or commissioners next Tuesday where if it did we were going to get to.
That seven. Any further discussion or those in favor of those
opposed the motion. Thank you just one thing I think I heard while there talk to.
You many people on this building twenty years for him.
Sometimes. I don't recall specifically. But of course I can tell you
that part of what he does and what we've been doing over the last year or two is
monitoring other municipal projects and. We're pessimistic on how the building
will girl it doesn't appear that prices have gone down which should be
a shock but for the price of this thing what happened was actually one quarter of.
Our building was formed was about I think it was four million for milling with
twenty dollars for about one for we want and they want it was four dollars so the
prices are they're just unfortunate that's what. Hopefully will be able to move our
project forward and we'll get find out what kind of money you're looking at dealing
with for real estate you know. The next item on the agenda.
I have been
a Dominican should nutritionists will this be talked about it last meeting and that
had to do with the damage to the covered bridge what is the status of that place.
That the last. Group from the state was going to be
a few weeks we don't have a date on it yet but there was
a meeting that was going to be scheduled for February fifth. It's just
a fact. That I haven't seen it do is it never
a message you have today said if it were the fifth and it said it would take
a few weeks. So much to rejection of the road maybe considers the responsibility
for that as a state or as
a state that the bridges no pretty state or bridges state to where someone on the
side of the area with us just so they're living for half or so that the expense of
that will be incurred for
a repairs this is not ours thank you. We're trying and I know Rex been doing
sort of keep on with Michael or just because you know he's been doing IT job of
Dave people on his Facebook site which I didn't sure you want Arnie but site but if
you go to our new website his Facebook page is late on the police department one as
well so he's been doing
a good job of trying to keep people in the loop on the Where We Stand with that
fairly good whatever was broken it was a special part in the take there's
a lot of us are. On one side somebody on the hit actually down the bottom looks
like you know what was in there. And just that they're
just like. Oh I'm just when you report.
The truth the state recorder sixteen sixteen intersection so there are certain
additions to Deputy insurance by.
The meeting did take place and thank Representative mile for his attendance as well
as everybody who works for penned up. The entire state of your section which
will thank you but you know we could have that meeting we talked
a good bit about what could or could not be done we only talked briefly about one
of our concerns was what they had what they did to improve the intersection of our
concerns from that regard and we are in the process of working through Penn DOT
trying to find
a longer term solution to that as well as I anticipate that that wall so become
a business item either from this study that we talked about earlier with on the one
sixteen corridor or or if I have to all make
a stand alone project and present it as
a representative to the Transportation Planning Organization which is where how
they determine where the funds get filtered for transportation projects you know
accounting stuff. We're moving at the speed of
a snail but we're we're trying to fix. It it's. Just
is there any discussion any. Discussion of
a new piece of new business. Write the next part of the event just is open to the
public. Anyone wishing to comment. In that
case is there a motion for adjournment Global Research second I think. There's
a place for. Your.